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Vancouver’s newest nightlife craze is the Escape Room Game Experience, several different versions of which have popped up in Richmond and Vancouver within the last few months. Already popular in Asia, Escape Room Experiences are 5-D games wherein you are locked in a room and forced to solve a mystery or finish a series of challenges before being let out.

The twist? You’re being timed, and 45 minutes flies by when you’re trying to solve a murder.

The escape room game experience is a great way to spend an evening with friends, or an even better way to pass an extremely boring rainy day in Vancouver. So far, most of the Escape Game Rooms have a very low success rate, and it is likely you’ll need to go back a few times in order to actually succeed in escaping any rooms.

Escape Rooms in Vancouver:

SmartyPantz
#100-289 Abbott Street in Gastown
$25 each per game
4 – 15 people per game
5 different themed escape rooms. Great stories behind the rooms and hosts stay in character. Very immersive experience.www.smartypantz.ca

E-Exit West Broadway309 West Broadway
$24 each per game
2 – 6 people per game
4 different themed escape rooms. Very creepy experience with rooms like Butcher shop, Circus and Transylvania.www.e-exit.ca/vancouver-west-broadway

i-Exit Vancouver1129 Granville Street, Vancouver
$30 each per game
2 – 6 people per game
Extremely technically advanced, great location on the Granville strip downtown.www.i-exit.com

GUESS HQ150 West Hastings, Vancouver
No pricing listed on website
2 – 8 people per game
You will feel like James Bond, dodging lasers and going on incredible missions. Very reliant on teamwork.www.guesshq.com

Locked Canada1050 Kingsway, Vancouver
$25 + tax per game
2 – 8 people per game
Handcuffs, flashlights and great puzzles that will have you cursing your friends or wringing your hands in panic.www.lockedcanada.com

Find and Seek Puzzle Adventure Escape Rooms2075 – 88 West Pender (Tinseltown Mall)
$24 per person
1-10 people per game
Immersive stories and adventures in a series of rooms (different chapters coming soon), different from the same old combination safe + lock & key escape rooms.www.gofindandseek.com

Escape Rooms in Richmond

Xscape Vancouver
Unit #200 – 7800 Alderbridge Way, Richmond.
$22 + Tax per game
4 – 10 people per game
The background music definitely gets you sweating as the timer ticks down and you still aren’t close to solving anything.www.xcapevancouver.com

Time Escape#140-3471 No. 3 Road, Richmond
$23.30 each
2 – 6 people per game
A huge variety of puzzles and themes that will have you coming back for more.www.timeescape.ca

Myst Escape#140 – 6851 Elmbridge Way, Richmond
$25 per game
4 – 12 people per game
Escape rooms that will give you nightmares including a Saw themed room and “Haunted School”.www.mystescape.com

Tixe8960 River Drive #1, Richmond
$30 each per game
4 – 10 people per game
Very immersive games that will transport you to another world, that’s creepy and stressful. Some games have a 0% success rate!www.tixe.com

Escape Rooms in Lower Mainland

Krakit4035 North Road, Burnaby
$22 each per game
2 – 6 people per game
Live actors make the game experience that much more exciting, testing your intelligence to get your heart pounding.www.krakit.ca

Smartypantz was an amazing experience, we did the haunted room and while it wasn’t super scary it was a ton of fun, the host was an actor in costume and they set the stage for why we in the room. Props and decorations were amazing…and we had two way radios to ask for clues….and the host stayed in character on the radio…..even when they came in at the end….they were in character. We solved it with less than one minute to go….so exciting. We’ve heard the serial killer room is supposed to be awesome….it’s next on our list

We did the Guess HQ room of The Heist and it was great……we really appreciated that while we had 4 adults/teens playing we could also have our 7 year old daughter come along to enjoy the thrill of the game. Are there any other locations people would suggest where a child could tag along, and not meet up with things that are gory/scary/adult content?

We’re bringing, Trapped, the east coasts biggest escape room franchise to Coquitlam. We’ll be open at the end of October at Unit 9 – 1300 Woolridge St. in Coquitlam. We’re right down the street from Ikea.

Lockdown on Bridgport is the absolute worst of 3 escape rooms I’ve done… The clues made no sense even after they explaned them to us and the locks didn’t work correctly once or twice. I’ve been to others in Kelowna anf Vancouver that were great.

We at Find and Seek pride ourselves in the quality of our room and our customer’s experience, and it is mission critical for us that you have fun! We are critically acclaimed and our customers have given us a lot of positive feedback, as you can see here:

-House of Horrors in Countdown Escape in coquitlam
-Abandoned Dormitory in Lockdown in richmond, The prison room in lockdown is very good too.
-I Exit downtown has great rooms / puzzles but no scary
-Krakit is the most fun, any of the rooms with actors.

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